Items that can pose a danger or cause harm to others are not allowed in the cabin.
The following items aren’t allowed onboard:
Dangerous items
- Guns, firearms, and other devices that discharge projectiles — devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury by discharging a projectile, including:
- Firearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns
- Toy guns, replicas, and imitation firearms capable of being mistaken for real weapons, component parts of firearms, excluding telescopic sights
- Compressed air and CO2 guns, such as pistols, pellet guns, rifles, and ball bearing guns
- Signal flare pistols and starter pistols
- Bows, crossbows, and arrows
- Harpoon guns and spear guns
- Slingshots and catapults
- Stunning devices — devices designed specifically to stun or immobilize, including:
- Devices for shocking, such as stun guns, tasers, and stun batons
- Animal stunners and animal killers
- Disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gasses, and sprays, such as mace, pepper sprays, capsicum sprays, tear gas, acid sprays, and animal repellent sprays
- Objects with a sharp point or sharp edge capable of being used to cause serious injury, including:
- Items designed for chopping, such as axes, hatchets, and cleavers.
- Ice axes and ice picks
- Razor blades
- Box cutters
- Knives with blades of more than 6 cm
- Scissors with blades of more than 6 cm as measured from the fulcrum
- Martial arts equipment with a sharp point or sharp edge
- Swords and sabres
- Workmen’s tools — tools capable of being used either to cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of an aircraft, including:
- Crowbars
- Drills and drill bits, including cordless portable power drills
- Tools with a blade or a shaft of more than 6 cm capable of use as a weapon, such as screwdrivers and chisels
- Saws, including cordless portable power saws
- Blowtorches
- Bolt guns and nail guns
- Blunt instruments — objects capable of being used to cause serious injury when used to hit, including:
- Baseball and softball bats
- Clubs and batons, such as billy clubs, blackjacks, and nightsticks
- Martial arts equipment
- Explosives and incendiary substances and devices — substances and devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:
- Ammunition
- Blasting caps
- Detonators and fuses
- Replica or imitation explosive devices
- Mines, grenades, and other explosive military stores
- Fireworks and other pyrotechnics
- Smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges
- Dynamite, gunpowder, and plastic explosives
- Any other article (substance or device) capable, or appearing to be capable of causing serious injury or posing a threat to the safety of the plane or which is being used to cause serious injury and which is not commonly used in security restricted areas, e.g. martial arts equipment, swords, sabres, etc.
Sharp objects and weapons
You can’t take any items which can be used as weapons. Examples include knives, straight razors, razor blades, scissors with blades measuring more than 6 cm (2.4. in), or gun imitations.
Prescription medication that you administer with a syringe or hypodermic needle (such as insulin, for example) may be allowed in your cabin baggage. You need to bring a prescription with the name of the medication, and the issuing pharmacy or doctor.
Liquids and gels
You can only carry small amounts of liquids or gels in your cabin baggage.
In most cases, liquids and gels must be carried in containers no bigger than 100 ml. However, you can check the regulations of the airports you’ll travel through — London City Airport for example allows passengers to carry up to 2L of liquids or gels on a plane.
If you need to travel with larger liquid containers, you need to store them in your checked baggage.
If you have a connecting flight, don’t buy any liquids or gels in large containers at the duty-free shops (unless you can access your checked baggage and pack them there). They may be confiscated before boarding your next flight.
Electronic devices
There may be restrictions on bringing certain electronic devices because of possible interference with the plane’s navigational equipment. For example, lithium-ion batteries should not exceed 100 Wh.